Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer recently announced that his office has secured a jail sentence for a man who was charged with groping four women, including a minor, on the Metro Red Line subway.

The defendant, Ager Linder, 26, was also banned from all Metro stations and was ordered to register as a sex offender.

“People should be able to use our transit systems without troubling and frightening harassment, abuse or worse,” Feuer said. “Public transit is essential to the future of our city, and we must do all we can to ensure our moms, kids – everyone – can ride without fear.”

Linder pleaded no contest to two counts of sexual battery and two counts of battery against a transit passenger. He was sentenced to 36 months of probation and ordered to serve 450 days in county jail. Linder was also ordered to complete one year of a sex offender treatment program and stay 100 yards away from all Metro trains and stations.

The crimes occurred from last July to December. Linder targeted four women on three separate occasions while riding Red Line subway trains. In each instance, he approached the victims and touched their breasts, buttocks or other body parts. Most recently in December 2017, he allegedly pinned a victim against the wall of the train and grabbed her buttocks before she escaped and alerted authorities.

Linder also has five prior convictions for crimes on public transportation including touching women on buses in Culver City, Norwalk and West Los Angeles, and groping a woman on a Metro Blue Line train in Long Beach.